Friday, October 12, 2007

Must Happen Events For A Wicked Problem Scenario - 11

This is another in a series of "blogicles"
on how Mess Mapping™ and Resolution Scenario Mapping processes can be
used to
represent, analyze, evaluate Wicked Problems and then to choose actions
that ameliorate the Wicked Problem at hand.

Each team of 4 to 7 people works backwards: assuming that assigned their Endstate has already happened, they determine what it took to get there.

As a first step, each team first identifies those events that Must
Happen or Must Not Happen if their Endstate is to be realized. For
example, if vaccination is an important defense against Pandemic Flu,
Must Not Happen Events might describe contamination at multiple vaccine
production facilities, or rapid mutation of the virus so that existing
vaccine stocks are much less effective.

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This is another in a series of "blogicles"
on how Mess Mapping™ and Resolution Scenario Mapping processes can be
used to
represent, analyze, evaluate Wicked Problems and then to choose actions
that ameliorate the Wicked Problem at hand.

Each team of 4 to 7 people works backwards: assuming that assigned their Endstate has already happened, they determine what it took to get there.